It led to the sewer.
In Brazil, employees of the Vicente Piraguibe Institute for the Execution of Punishments, near Rio de Janeiro, discovered a 10-meter tunnel to the sewer, which was dug by prisoners.
About this writes NTK.
Prison guards suspect that work on the underground passage began about three months ago and was almost complete.
They discovered the underground shaft before any of the prisoners managed to escape.
The State Secretariat for the Execution of Punishments (SEAP) said the tunnel was discovered on September 2.
It is believed that the tunnel was being prepared for several leaders of the Comando Vermelho criminal organization, who are due to be transferred to the prison in the coming weeks.
Prison officials received a tip that a group of prisoners were trying to access the sewer system under an overgrown vegetable garden on territory of the complex.
In 2013, 31 prisoners reportedly escaped through a tunnel leading to the same sewer. At the time, investigators concluded that the tunnel was built with the help of the prison after the prisoners were allowed to work on the pipes through which they later escaped.
Prison officials believe that this escape was the inspiration for the latest attempt. Five of the prisoners involved in the 2013 escape are still in prison.
The names of the prisoners suspected of organizing the new tunnel are Josinaldo Rodrigues de Araujo, Jefferson Gomes da Silva, Alcides Francisco da Silva, Dario Nascimento de Freitas, and Rafael Silva Souza.
A total of 15 prisoners were transferred to a maximum security prison after the new tunnel was discovered. SEAP continues to investigate the circumstances of the tunnel's construction and those responsible for planning it.
Press secretary Maria Rosa Lo Duca Nebel said: “All those involved who are still being identified will be sent into isolation for an indefinite period and will certainly return to the closed regime”.
The institution was nicknamed “Paper Prison” after the escape of 105 prisoners in 2002.
Recall that former prisoners fighting at the front frankly admitted how they are actually treated in the army. They also answered whether they have additional security.
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